Marion senior Finley McConniel edged Mitchell Christian sophomore Silas Holdeman by the closest of margins — 0.03 seconds — to claim a dramatic 2024 Class B boys championship in Rapid City Saturday afternoon, Oct. 26. McConniel, fifth last year, beat Holdeman, the 2023 state champion, 16:45.97 to 16...

Freeman/Marion/Freeman Academy scored eight touchdowns on 10 possessions and held De Smet to 191 total yards — all on the ground — in a 58-14 win in the opening round of the Class 9AA playoffs Thursday night, Oct. 24 in Freeman. The win moves the No. 5-seed Phoenix to 7-2 and sets them up for a 357-...

A strong contingent of local runners will head west next weekend after qualifying for the 2024 SDHSAA State Cross-Country Championships Wednesday afternoon in Scotland. That includes the entire boys team from Freeman Public and girls team from Menno, both of which finished second in the Region 3B st...

Kenny Birkey will be joining the Freeman Police Department as a second officer. The 2010 Freeman High School graduate — and permanent resident of Freeman since moving back here in 2019 after marrying Aprille Hofer — was hired by the Freeman City Council at its regular meeting Tuesday night, Oct. 15....

Nathan Epp, head coach of the soccer team at Freeman Academy, stood before his players at halftime of their quarterfinal playoff match against West Central late Tuesday afternoon and, as coaches do, offered a motivational observation. Epp told the team he like what he had seen — aggressive, lateral ...

The Freeman Academy/Marion boys cross-country team stands together after winning the Great Plains Conference title in Burke last week. Picture are, from left: A.J. Miller, Kolter Schmidt, Finley McConniel, Hayden Schmidt, Caden Tieszen and Armando Miller. Freeman Academy/Marion finished first among ...

Sure, the ability to harness and use the energy created by steam is central to the Pioneer Power Show, but Menno’s biggest two-day event of the year also demonstrates something else — an ability to go big.  In the mid-1800s, when the world figured out how to create and harness steam and convert it i...

Land on Fifth Street has been donated; funds are being raised A centennial celebration in Menno in 1979 was a direct link to the establishment of the Menno Heritage Museum a few short years later. Today, a new effort to further preserve the memories that matter to the larger Menno community is well ...

150-YEAR CELEBRATION OF SETTLEMENT Place and time, then and now, honored by Swiss Mennonites Salem, Salem-Zion Mennonite churches come together to honor Anabaptist roots, migration journey of 1874 in weekend observance JEREMY WALTNER  - EDITOR & PUBLISHER There was assuredly great risk and no doubt ...

Activities begin Saturday evening; Salem-Zion Mennonite host church All are welcome to this weekend’s commemoration of the arrival of the Swiss-Volhynian Mennonites from Russia to this area 150 years ago. All events will be hosted by the Salem-Zion Mennonite Church located 4 miles east of Freeman on...